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Euro Exim Bank Taps Ripple’s xRapid for Cross-Border Settlements Euro Exim Bank, a London-based bank primarily focused on providing financial services for export and import companies, will become the first bank to publicly announce it is using the XRP cryptocurrency for cross-border payments. Ripple announced Tuesday that Euro Exim Bank, …

The FUD Stompers: Like It or Not, XRP Army Is Winning Crypto’s Hashtag War ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– When it comes to crypto, everyone loves to talk about “community.” Every cryptocurrency has one, we’re led to believe, but often as not the community is just a Telegram channel peppered with demands of “@admin …

National Bank of Kuwait Taps Ripple for New Remittance Service National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has joined Ripple’s blockchain-based payments network seeking faster cross-border money transfers. The bank announced Thursday that it has launched a new remittance service, dubbed NBK Direct Remit, that enables “immediate” blockchain-based payments using Ripple technology. The …

2019: The Year Blockchain Begins Finance’s Great Unbundling Asheesh Birla is senior vice president of product at Ripple. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. Industries across the board – from cable companies to grocery stores – are desperately trying to hold on to their most …

UAE Remittance Firm Launching Ripple-Based Payments in Q1 2019 One of the largest remittance firms in the United Arab Emirates, UAE Exchange, is working with Ripple to launch blockchain-based payments to Asia by the first quarter of next year. According to a report from Reuters on Thursday, the firm’s CEO Promoth …

Ripple Is Making It Easier for Customers to Integrate XRP. They Aren’t Yet Ripple is rolling out a new version of its most popular product, xCurrent. Positioned as a rival to SWIFT – the 45-year-old messaging network at the center of the global payments infrastructure – version 4.0 of xCurrent …